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Alaska Premier Health

3300 Arctic Blvd. Suite 101

Anchorage, AK 99503

907-561-3488

 

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All of our patients start out with a comprehensive assessment, including review of past and current medical history, social situation, sleep patterns, and survey of physical activity habits.  After review of this information, one of our Providers will counsel you regarding your diet options, and help you choose a diet approach that best meets your needs, goals, and desires.  This initial diet is a starting point.  You and your Provider will collaborate on an ongoing basis to fine tune your diet, so that you continue to make progress toward your long term goals.  Once you achieve your desired weight, this process culminates with the weight maintenance plan, a plan of action for long term maintenance at your goal weight.  Many patients will be suitable candidates for prescription medication to suppress appetite as an aid to diet compliance.

Snacking

If you find that counting calories is too much trouble and that you struggle with portion control, but still want to eat table foods at least one meal per day, our Quick Start Plan is the program for you.

 

Snacking style diets break your total daily calories into 5 or 6 snack sized meals.  These meals are spaced evenly throughout your day.

 

The advantage of this approach is that appetite is easier to control and bloodsugar remains stable.  By utilizing portion-size packaged nutritional foods, Snacking diets achieve a lower average calorie count, and significantly reduce meal planning and preparation time.

 

Because of this, patients on a snacking diet tend to lose weight faster than those on the Calorie-Counting or Traditional diets.

 

With Quick Start, our basic Snacking Program, you:
  • Eat a balance of high protein supplements and low-calorie table food
  • Save time on food preparation, shopping and meal planning
  • Work with a compromised approach offering limited table food, including prepackaged microwave meals, and high fiber, nutrient rich vegetables
  • Will utilize pre-packaged supplements, which are high in protein to aid appetite control, and preserve existing muscle mass
  • Can choose from a wide variety of flavors of protein supplements, from pancakes to soup
  • Will have a brisk initial weight loss, usually 10% of starting weight within 8-10 weeks

 

Patients choosing this approach want to see rapid weight loss, and are willing to substantially change their diet to achieve it, but want to retain some regular table food in their initial diet.

are willing to live with food choice restrictions to minimize meal planning and preparation time.

 

 

Alaska Premier Health
3300 Arctic Blvd. #101
Anchorage, AK  99503
907-561-3488
 
Last update: July 2007
 
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